St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Surface area (sq. km)

The value for Surface area (sq. km) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines was 390.00 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 390.00 in 2018 and a minimum value of 390.00 in 1961.

Definition: Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

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Year Value
1961 390.00
1962 390.00
1963 390.00
1964 390.00
1965 390.00
1966 390.00
1967 390.00
1968 390.00
1969 390.00
1970 390.00
1971 390.00
1972 390.00
1973 390.00
1974 390.00
1975 390.00
1976 390.00
1977 390.00
1978 390.00
1979 390.00
1980 390.00
1981 390.00
1982 390.00
1983 390.00
1984 390.00
1985 390.00
1986 390.00
1987 390.00
1988 390.00
1989 390.00
1990 390.00
1991 390.00
1992 390.00
1993 390.00
1994 390.00
1995 390.00
1996 390.00
1997 390.00
1998 390.00
1999 390.00
2000 390.00
2001 390.00
2002 390.00
2003 390.00
2004 390.00
2005 390.00
2006 390.00
2007 390.00
2008 390.00
2009 390.00
2010 390.00
2011 390.00
2012 390.00
2013 390.00
2014 390.00
2015 390.00
2016 390.00
2017 390.00
2018 390.00

Development Relevance: Total surface area is particularly important for understanding an economy's agricultural capacity and the environmental effects of human activity. Innovations in satellite mapping and computer databases have resulted in more precise measurements of land and water areas. Population, surface area, income, and output are basic measures of the size of an economy. They also provide a broad indication of actual and potential resources. Land area is therefore used as one of the major indicator to normalize other indicators.

Limitations and Exceptions: The data are collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations through annual questionnaires. The FAO tries to impose standard definitions and reporting methods, but complete consistency across countries and over time is not possible. The data collected from official national sources through the questionnaire are supplemented with information from official secondary data sources. The secondary sources cover official country data from websites of national ministries, national publications and related country data reported by various international organizations.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Total land area includes inland water bodies such as major rivers and lakes. Variations from year to year may be due to updated or revised data rather than to change in area.

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use